We Pay More for Trains Even If We Take Cabs, But At Least They’re Not on Fire

November 4, 2009

You think your commute is bad: In Philly SEPTA is on strike, which has screwed up transit especially much for the poorer folks who live furthest from their workplaces. Such trains as there are, are overcrowded, and this morning one of them caught fire; passengers panicked and kicked out the windows but, miraculously, no one seems to have been hurt. SEPTA workers seek a four percent annual raise.